Joseph Capri

A U.S. F-16 fighter jet may have crashed on Monday during a training exercise over the Adriatic Sea and the U.S. Air Force said the status of its Italy-based pilot was unknown. (www.reuters.com) Mehr...

Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board, joined by Federal Aviation Administration officials, are on-site Monday morning in the Shirley neighborhood where a single-engine private plane crashed, flipped and burned late Sunday morning, killing its pilot and a passenger and leaving another passenger in critical condition. (www.newsday.com) Mehr...

World War II-era P-51 Mustang fighter reached 530 mph before it pitched skyward and then slammed nose-first into rows of box seats, killing the pilot and 10 people on the ground (www.msnbc.msn.com) Mehr...

The NTSB has once again included general aviation safety in its annual list of “most wanted safety improvements,” and in doing so the board lamented the fact that GA continues to have the highest accident rate within civil aviation including a fatality rate that has jumped by 25 percent in recent years. (www.flyingmag.com) Mehr...